Difference between Information Gain and Mutual Information for feature selection
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What is the difference between information gain and mutual information?
At this point, I understand that information gain is calculated between a random variable and target class for classification while mutual information is calculated between two random variables.
Does mutual information become the same as information when it is calculated between a random variable and target class?
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What is the difference between information gain and mutual information?
At this point, I understand that information gain is calculated between a random variable and target class for classification while mutual information is calculated between two random variables.
Does mutual information become the same as information when it is calculated between a random variable and target class?
feature-selection mutual-information
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What is the difference between information gain and mutual information?
At this point, I understand that information gain is calculated between a random variable and target class for classification while mutual information is calculated between two random variables.
Does mutual information become the same as information when it is calculated between a random variable and target class?
feature-selection mutual-information
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What is the difference between information gain and mutual information?
At this point, I understand that information gain is calculated between a random variable and target class for classification while mutual information is calculated between two random variables.
Does mutual information become the same as information when it is calculated between a random variable and target class?
feature-selection mutual-information
feature-selection mutual-information
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